skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No defense for landlords or anyone else for that matter but the trend of landlords being hostile to tenants is part of a larger trend I see all through society and its one of tunnel vision brought on through experience. This is to say that when one is engaged in an activity for a prolonged period of time that experience seems to cloud their judgment ie if all you have is a hammer etc. Anyone who has worked a cash register may sympathize with the observation that all customers are stupid assholes. Police officers only see the worst behavior, teachers who have taught elementary school for decades lose ability to communicate with adults, landlords who only rent to low income start to think everyone is a deadbeat. The list can go on. Are these generalizations absolutely and I’ve experienced them all enough times personally to generalize. The remedy is to change our activities and keep a critical and open mind. The older I get the more value I see in liberal education in the classical sense.
I can not say which is more prevalent.

> So.. which is more prevalent.. users throw away their chairs because they expect to live high on the hog off insurance, or users throw away their chairs because any form of replacement is often met with these arbitrary and senseless complications?

Those who can work on chairs themselves do so. Those who can not work on chairs do not.

If you have on idea what kind of connector a 12V 35AH battery would have, and have no way to disassemble your chair to replace the batteries, then you can not realistically replace those batteries. Add in living off $1,400 a month and you see why someone would ask for a free wheelchair instead of paying $250 for an uncertain chance at repairing their wheelchair.
True, but these feeders are quite numerous and there could be 10 anyways for each large sea going container ship on a global average. And they would be working constantly to bring capacity out from larger ships anchored in bays and bring it up rivers or canals.

So it's a good start though. From looking at its design this one is mostly for river use or litterol water operation.
That's bullshit; being a landlord is a lot of labor. Buildings don't magically maintain themselves. It is true that there is a disconnect between the labor and the income; being a landlord in a desirable area isn't more labor than being a landlord in a less desirable area (in fact it can be less!).
Project manager / the market is so slow.

I'm not a project manager and I can't stop recruiters contacting me. Project management is not the whole IT market. It's a small niche to say the least.
Do you also think that primary school students should not be taught, say, multiplication? Because they can, of course, use a calculator. No need to ask them what 3 times 4 is.
Why doesn't it work? It's closer to the real website. It works better than lorem-ipsum.
stop what?
Except these models with high token counts tend to forget the tokens at the beginning of the prompt anyways.
I strongly suspect that if a tenant asked to be paid to move out it would piss the landlord off even more. "Now they are extorting me!"

People love to appear generous but hate demands.
Is it a "generator" though? It seems to be static.

Well apart from Sentry, Datadog, and Loom.
> The company joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort and closed a $20 million Series A last March. Hubble’s first innovation was to develop software enabling off-the-shelf Bluetooth chips to communicate over very long ranges [600km] with low power.

> [...] Once it’s up and running, a customer would simply need to integrate their devices’ chipsets with a piece of firmware to enable connection to Hubble’s network.
> guardrails that protect the ignorant from themselves -- like the torque setting on the drill

This analogy didn't make sense to me the first time it played, and still doesn't here. Somebody who doesn't know how to operate a drill won't touch the clutch, and the clutch isn't there to avoid hurting the user's hands in the first place. It's there to avoid over-driving fasteners. It is a function for enabling somebody who does know what they're doing to work faster; you can prepare a fastener by keying in the clutch on the first couple before going on autopilot to drive screws to predictable depth without worrying about feathering the trigger or trashing the screw head from cam out.
> why do we expect any of this to be different with the most complex machines many of use in our daily lives: computers?

We don't? We have dedicated F1 help button, onboarding tutorials and ultimately google? Yes, this is very insufficient, but that's true for the power drills as well, have you read those manuals? Tried to find one online?

(tangentially, using trick questions to gauge common understanding of UI isn't a great approach, this isn't SAT, it's easy to have the correct enough model "the number on the drill is more power" to work in practice, but mistakenly think this is represented as speed. Also, why do you need to know whether the torque is for the motor or the head? But there is enough space to put the word "torque" in the interface to make it more intuitive (and add a QR code to some awesome intuitive video guide))
Range/Selection at user touch/click, seven times, 60 times a second.
> It was clearly the work of someone inexperienced walking through walls in an AI-fuelled coding frenzy.

Isnt this what code reviews are for? I catch a decent amount of code that looks AI generated. Typically, some very foreign pattern or syntax that this engineers never used nor is common in the codebase. Or something weirdly obtuse that could be refactored and shows a lack of understanding.

Normally I ask something like, "Interesting approach! Is there a reason to do it this way over (mention a similar pattern in our codebase)?" or if it's egregious, I might ask, "Can you explain this to me?".

This feel similar to early career engineers copy pasting stack overflow code. Now its just faster and easier for them to do. It's still fairly easy to spot though.
> abide by the relevant laws

This can unfortunately mean maximal increases in rent each year, rather than someone who is just happy to have a good tenant who causes no trouble
FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Junk Fees
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/10/...
> The law, Senate Bill 478, set to go into effect on July 1, prohibits the use of “drip pricing, a practice in which companies advertise only a portion of what a customer would actually pay for a certain product or service,”

> a 5% or 6% SF Health Care Security Ordinance surcharge ... also charge customers a 20% service fee that goes to employees in lieu of the traditional tipping system.

What's next. A fee for soap used to clean dishes? A fee for a customer's share rent? A fee for providing a bathroom? A fee for vegetables?

It's dishonesty. Charge customers what they need to pay. Put this on a price.
> I’ve worked on cars and other mechanical things for most of 3 decades. I’ve never needed a sticker telling me what size standard bolts were.

> On the broken, ruled as patent-infringing part, what do you want to happen that would comply with patent law? If it was compatible with Anderson, you’d just buy that. Since it wasn’t and the original company isn’t allowed to keep making them…

That is true of professional mechanics. A disabled guy with a screwdriver who never changed his own oil needs some help.

I did a poor job picking examples. Let's take about the complicated parts.

The joystick controller on most electric wheelchairs uses a very particular connector. If I do not know the brand and model number on that, I am probably screwed.

"Trim" pieces are often required to prevent a disabled person's limp limb from being sucked into a gap near a tire. Trying to order replacements for those is almost impossible.
On a millisecond old, virtual machine, sure.
There is no point to the article. It's another boring anti-React/Electron screed but with a conspiratorial, junior high polsci bent to it.

Having frameworks that allow more devs to do more things means correspondingly that more people can be hired for those things with less training. In this respect, there is an obvious overlap between employer and developer interests.

Take MongoDB from the article. IME the biggest advocates for MongoDB are not managers (who barely have any idea what it is). It's developers who just want an "easy" way to store data that corresponds closely to the JSON document format they are used to, and doesn't force them to think about "annoying" and "outdated" things like relational modeling, joins and schema migrations.

If fungibility and lowest common denominator hiring drove the popularity of dev tools, then .NET and Angular would be ruling the roost.
Not only are there always going to be indecent folks it is the factor that is least amenable to any sort of meaningful change. You can't make people be good people but you can via law make them stop doing particular kinds of wrong.
Chinampas is not truly floating. But you can absolutely have a true floating garden, as long as the water is fertile and has enough oxygen in it. Plant roots can survive in water or in water-logged conditions, dissolved oxygen is often the limiting factor.

You can have a layer of soil in your floating garden too. You can mix in amendments that will make your soil very light and fluffy. A bunch of empty bottles/jars make a pretty good floating raft that can handle some weight. May not be the best if you have concerns about microplastics in your food, but that is what they've been using here in the Mekong Delta.
Sounds like Mr. Smith never owned a house
> Food delivery services like DoorDash and Uber Eats, on the other hand, are exempt from the law banning service fees.

Of course they are. Wouldn't it be simply awful if they had to advertise their actual full price, just like restaurants they deliver from?
Words drift a bit over time. Smith isn't talking about landlords in exactly the sense of, say, someone who rents out an apartment. He's talking about people who own land and extract economic rent (ie, do nothing, breath through their mouth & get money; land isn't going anywhere).

So he'd probably be on board with the idea of setting up systems that get rid of the unearned part of rent, but even if the class of people he is talking about were gone there would still be people who own houses/apartments and rent them out to others. They'd be making a bit less profit since they'd earn whatever the market thinks administration is worth plus some sort of premium for tying up a lot of capital in a house.
I'm a big fan of Dan Shiffman, and got the first Nature of Code through his Kickstarter project in 2012 [1].

Even if you are an advanced programmer, there's something magical about Dan's style and his ability to explain concepts in a simple way. Also perfect to get kids started in programming.

The book is available for free online, but if you can afford, it's a great addition to your (physical) bookshelf.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiffman/the-nature-of-...
> Digital consumers expect personalized experiences with relevant information and insights on demand.

What?
The writer acknowledges being deceptive and manipulative. (Falsely claiming someone he's not, disingenuous wasting of others time to become a familiar name, SEO-like content for banking capital for the purpose of influencing.)

The reason I'm mentioning this is not to criticize the writer themselves, but to strongly discourage any impressionable people from assuming that behaving like the writer described is totally OK.

For example, one of my goals in being on HN is to "gain the trust of techbros, and destroy them from within", but I'm not dishonest about that.
It’s hard for me to see how the tenant would go about negotiating that solution, though. How would you, as a tenant, present that option in a way that doesn’t just sound like blackmail? I bet there’s a way to do it, but it’s clearly a much easier sell from a disinterested third party who the landlord identifies as being in their in-group.
>systems that make it easier and safer for people to be decent would be good

Systems that incentivise decency would be better.

Capitalism is neither.
Eh, that isn't that important though. They can choose to feel however they like and a skilled negotiator could frame the request well. The question is really "would they pay?".
This looks very singularity-ish to me; LLMs can construct a reward function that can be trained in simulation, and the trained reward function works surprisingly well in the physical world.

Some of the videos raised questions in my mind as to whether or not the leash was doing stabilization work on the robot; it might be. But, if you watch the video where they deflate a yoga ball, you can see the difference when they're "saving" the robot and when they're just keeping it taut. The 'dextrous cube' manipulation video is also pretty compelling.

This sort of 'automate a grad student' type work, in this case, coming up with a reasonable reward function, all stacks up over time. And, I'd bet a lot of people's priors would be "this probably won't work," so it's good to see it can work in some circumstances -- will save time and effort down the road.
I've had knots thrown back at me by my planer before. That was before I upgraded to the DW735 with those power feeders and a much deeper body to keep the cutters further away from the human, though.

I have a reasonably safe checklist and set practice for my jointer and I still don't trust the thing.
As the article mentions at the end, and I agree, I don't think this was inherently meant to be an anti-firefox change, otherwise they most likely wouldn't have made something specific to firefox on windows. More likely, this is a case of an anti-bot measure that only works in firefox on windows specifically, hence the specific targeting, and some google engineer didn't bother to test it thoroughly enough.
Especially in light of some rather ... unpleasant ... comments here, let me just point out this bit from their profile:

> 17 yr old webdev

Maybe something to consider before going off on rants accusing people of being a war mongering authoritarian. Which you shouldn't do regardless, but especially not here.

Sometimes this community really embarrass me ... this is one of those moments.
Look, the other elephants start out the stork delivery scene declaring they’re part of “a proud race” and end it gossiping about “what would Mr. Jumbo think?!?” and “Jumbo? More like dumbo…”

We also see what happens to certain black men in the world, during “Song of the Roustabouts” (“when other folks have gone to bed / we slave until we’re almost dead,” “boss man hounding / keep on pounding / ‘grab that rope you hairy ape’”)

Afterwards we see the cruel and arbitrary nature of those who mock the poor kid, contrasted to the universal experience of family (“Baby mine don’t you cry”). Eventually the kid ends up with a bunch of (black) crows, including one Mr. “Jim Crow,” who make fun of him, before his buddy from Brooklyn calls them out on how people make fun of them for being different too, and they feel real bad; after finding friendship there, he earns social acceptance for his athletic feats (flight) and later through participation in the armed forces (“Dum-bombers for victory!!” read the newspapers.)

You sayin’ that this isn’t about race at all, and the whole storyline is just a coinkydink? Ha! Tell me another one. Disney’s been at this stuff for longer than your parents have been alive.
I'm actually not seeing the reason landlords need to exist. Owning things is not a provision of value to society.
Having just finished watching evangelion rebuild today: it is definitely a robot anime
This article has some photos of the mentioned setup in it:
https://tienphong.vn/doc-dao-trang-trai-rau-sach-tren-be-lam...
So do I, and worse. Look, all I’m saying is I’m thankful for this crutch that helps me deal with the limitations of my associative memory, so as long as it can’t think and can’t replace me entirely
I'm not in big tech and I am absolutely worried because middle management and the c suite think my job will be redundant soon, even though I can see it won't, and thus they'll lay me or my peers off before shtf and ofc they fave no consequences for that decision.

May be tech managers are better, but seeing the recent run of layoffs, it seems they're not really that much better. The problem fundamentally is your boss doesn't know how to code and will be so impressed that he can get code to write fizzbuzz, so why does he need you anymore?
> Zingaro … now has his students work in groups and submit a video explaining how their code works.

Difficult to imagine a scenario more likely to have driven me entirely away from programming.

What a bizarro world we’ve created in such a short time.
> soil-moisture sensing

"Satellite images of plants' fluorescence can predict crop yields" (2024) ... "Sensor-Free Soil Moisture Sensing Using LoRa Signals (2022)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=40234912

"Multimodal" Aperture synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis
It's called "martial arts" because originally these were skills used in warfare. "Art" here does not mean "dance and performance"; that is a more modern definition. Sun Tzu's The Art of War is not a theatre guide.

On a semi-related note, "liberal arts" refers to the skills that would be required to participate in a free society, particularly to participate in informed discussions on social and political matters. That's why liberal arts includes subjects such as math, science, geology, and public speaking. It feels like many people are not aware of that, which ironically is due to a want of proper liberal arts education.
Consumers are not responsible for macro-economic changes that make a subset of businesses unviable. I was likening Shale Oil companies that could only be profitable at >$95 a barrel to companies that were only viable when capital was cheap - both groups should have known and planned for the respective numbers changing.
On Proxmox, as much as possible I would just spin up an Alpine or Debian LXC container and install whichever packages I need, so it is more manual than the Jail-based plugins, but not a huge inconvenience.

While typing that I remembered another annoyance I had with TrueNAS, which is that it doesn't let me pick truly custom MAC addresses for my Jails or VMs, which I like for DHCP reservations. I use Coca-Cola's prefix, because it's funny and I know immediately that it's one of my hosted services.

I recall a blog post or thread somewhere describing the issues TrueNAS devs had with Jail plugins, but can't immediately find it again. If I do, I'll link it.
If I may add suggestions, I'd love a bit of CSS for dark mode.
Seems more likely to me that the people on the ground see things accurately and the voters are the ones making unrealistic demands based on their lack of experience.
> Equitability was not a factor, regardless of how much was paid for the noncompete.

There was no equitable value, which directly led into economic restraint and servitude arguments.

> The legal basis for voiding contracts is "unconscionability".

Not sure what you're referring to here, but you should review "balance of contract" and "fair and equitable terms" in US and California contract law.
That's amazing. Of course the Casio might have been more powerful than the original machines that FORTRAN was designed to run on (IBM 704 etc.) Also: no punched cards.
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It could be mistaken for actual text that would go into the final project. Lorem-ipsum is obvious fake text. I’ve had to explain to someone what it is before, but it was obvious enough they asked instead of thinking they should review the content of the text.
So bees play, hence they are conscious. But a lot of animals play and they are oblivious to themselves (not self conscious).
Does that really parse? There's plenty of things that have definite answers that are a Google search away, but we still expect things be able to do.

Did we just stop teaching kids basic spelling because spell check was built into MS Word? No, of course not, because even though spelling has been a more-or-less solved problem for people who already know how to read for the last thirty years, having kids learn to spell helps with their actual comprehension of a subject.

Also, if they do not learn the fundamental concepts then they will be able to differentiate a good solution from a bad solution. There's a lot of really shitty code that does technically accomplish the goal that it sets out for, and until you learn the fundamentals that fact won't be clear.
How many young people would be driven to programming in this scenario?
The rich keep getting richer faster at the expense of everyone else.
You can look for info and help in your local community for example. You don't need to extract revenge necessarily, if you find that person you can organize with some people and visit them to take your stuff back.
Smith is speaking about the core business of owning and letting use of land (or some other finite resource) itself.

The improvements that one might speculatively build on the land and then need to maintain or alter over time is actually a different, secondary business which can be seen as more labor-based, as you note.
> Is it a "generator" though? It seems to be static.

And the content is missing. All there is there is some placeholder text. /s
Can confirm pushing a classmate through drywall when I was a kid, accidentally. He didn't literally go through but he made a pretty big dent.
Totally agree on needing better laws. In the absence of such laws, it helps for landlords to just be decent folk for the sake of being decent folk.
By definition police uses violence for political reasons. That makes it a terrorist organization. Same with army.
I would be sympathetic to you if it were 2 years. Expecting "forever" is just entitlement. Smart thermostat features require ongoing support. You aren't entitled to the labor of other people forever just because you bought a piece of plastic. Have some understanding for the people who dedicated their time and work to making it happen.
Then, what is the heaviest movable machine of human civilization? The answer is aircraft carriers. The U. S. Navy Nimitz class aircraft carrier is one of the largest ships, and each ship is about 325 m long and 99,000 t heavy.

Looks like some ships are a few times heavier than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_machines#Sea_v...
As foolish as it is to think that bad people would create good laws, or that good laws don’t get used towards bad ends, it’s even more foolish to think that laws could ever be a replacement for good people. If everyone was good to each other, we wouldn’t need laws. If everyone was bad to each other, we’d probably be better off without them.
Lorem Ipsum generators take a tiny fraction of the power that an AI would use. Asking an AI to do it just seems wasteful.
Your linked article says rather the opposite of your claim of a quota:

> There weren’t any quotas around how many of these “diverse” candidates I had to actually hire

> Again, there was no quota
Sorry. Capitalism requires that we automate and scale up everything, everywhere, all the time, as much as possible, until the oceans boil and the skies burn. The shareholders expect nothing less.
Coding just keeps getting grosser and weirder decade over decade as new layers of abstraction and complexity get piled on. Just about everyone who does this shit for a living eventually hits a break point where the headassery du jour becomes too much to turn a blind eye to.
> “You can’t just jack up prices,” he said. “People are going to get sticker shock. Now a dish that was $20 before will be $26. People will notice that.”

“Oh no, I can’t lie to customers anymore. My business will be ruined!”